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Thursday, 23 December 2010

Trials - Laptop self portraits with scarf and mouse

Exploring self portrait with a laptop and a non wireless mouse.I also wanted to hide my background so I used a scarf and tried to see how far I could go. It was quite difficult to . Here I found it interesting that the poses look quite romantic when this was actually due to the physical difficulty of the task : holding the scarf, going as far as I could, checking on the monitor if the background was covered and clicking on the mouse at the same time

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Céline Siani Djiakoua is a visual artist, art facilitator, teacher, performer and jewellery maker. She was born in Nantes, France. She first studied Psychology (MA) and had a personal interest and experience in Psychoanalysis. She trained and worked as a schoolteacher and was going to become a psychologist when she moved to the U.K. in 2001. Since then she has followed her passion for Fine Art, graduating from Staffordshire University in June 2009. She is now based in Nottingham and has a studio at Surface Gallery. Céline Siani Djiakoua’s work is multidisciplinary, involving photography, video, drawing, animation, performance and installations. Her practice is profoundly influenced by her bodily experience as a previous dancer. Her work is informed by her interests in Jungian and Freudian/Lacanian theories, Phenomenology, Feminism, Cross Cultural Communication and Interculturalism.